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HitchSwitch: The name of the game

By AWA | Posted on June 5, 2018

Attorney by trade Jake Wolff trusted his gut feeling and quit his day job to start his own business helping newlyweds changing their name Deriving from New York City, Jake today lives in New Jersey with his wife and two kids. “It all started when I got married and my wife wanted to change her...

Tags: AWA, change your name, Chinese Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, domain name, EU, Haug Partners LLP, hitchswitch, IP, marriage

Freedrum: He bangs the drums

By AWA | Posted on May 22, 2018

They say necessity is the mother of invention. When August Bering’s young son wanted to learn how to play the drums, the entrepreneur came up with the easy-to-use (and silent) solution Freedrum. With a diverse background in music and computer programming, August is a trailblazer in different areas of innovation. “New ideas and projects have...

Tags: drum set, drums, entrepreneur, Freedrum, gyroscopic sensor, Intellectual Property, music, social media marketing

Antibodies vs. the EPO – What scope of protection?

By AWA | Posted on May 21, 2018

Antibodies are currently enjoying great attention and are, together with their derivations and combined applications, growing to occupy centre position in the therapeutics and diagnostics fields. Indeed, the possible industrial applications have increased many fold since the harvesting of the first monoclonal antibodies by researchers Ehrlich & Metchnikoff, which led to an effective syphilis treatment...

Tags: AIS, antibodies, EPO, US

A closer look at the countries that have ratified the UPC

By AWA | Posted on May 4, 2018

Considering that the UK now has ratified the UPC agreement, the entry into force of the system seems imminent although the German Federal Constitutional court still have to settle the complaint filed during 2017. If the complaint is dismissed, we will probably see the UPC opening up in 2018. Out of the 25 EU member that...

Tags: Britain, Europe, patents, UK, UPC

StoryTourist: Where stories come to life

By AWA | Posted on March 28, 2018

Have you dreamed of stepping into the set of your favourite book and experiencing its fictional world through the eyes of the characters? With Malmö start-up Velodrom’s new app StoryTourist, that might actually come true Stepping into a new world Deriving from creative backgrounds in theatre and script writing, Johanna Forsman and Andreas Jansson founded...

Tags: app, books, copyright, literature, pokemon, reading, stories, story

AWA Litigation secures win for start-up client Integration Diagnostics Sweden AB in a patent infringement and invalidity case

By AWA | Posted on March 21, 2018

The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm recently issued a judgment in a patent dispute between Osstell AB and Integration Diagnostics. Osstell claimed that Integration Diagnostics’ instrument for contactless measurement of dental implant stability (with the somewhat amusing trademark “Penguin”) infringed one of its patents.   Integration Diagnostics denied infringement and also filed a counter-claim...

Kubo: The future of coding

By AWA | Posted on February 28, 2018

Award-winning start-up KUBO Robotics helps teach young children the concept of coding with their interactive robot. A student project When entrepreneurs Tommy Otzen and Daniel Lindegaard started their Master project in Learning and Experience Technologies at the University of Southern Denmark in 2014, they didn’t have any specific agenda nor goal – only to find...

Tags: children, coding, Denmark, education, Intellectual Property, Kids, kubo, learning, Patent

Good and less good news for British IP professionals

By AWA | Posted on February 14, 2018

For some British IP professionals all is about to change with regards to European intellectual property practice – but for others nothing will change at all. At a meeting between the EPO and the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) in late January, it was confirmed that European patent attorneys who are based in the UK...

Tags: Britain, EU, UPC

Olympic games well covered by Intellectual Property

By AWA | Posted on February 9, 2018

The Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, have just started. For two weeks athletes around the world will do their very best to represent their countries. But what about intellectual property at the games? The Olympic rings are well-known to almost everyone on this planet, i.e. the five interlocked rings with colours in blue,...

Tags: design, Intellectual Property, IOC, olympic games, PyeongChang, Trademark

XMReality: See it to believe it

By AWA | Posted on February 2, 2018

Over the past ten years, Linköping based XMReality has gone from a small research company to a Software-as-a-service enterprise by offering their customers a high tech augmented reality solution.  Through the eyes of an expert What do you do when the machine you are working with doesn’t work and you are alone? Don’t you wish...

Tags: augmented reality, Intellectual Property, Linköping, technology, XMReality

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Alexandre Theodorou, Partner and European Patent Attorney, Brussels, Belgium

Alexandre Theodorou

Partner, European Patent Attorney

Laura Stravinskaite, Senior Associate and Attorney at Law, Copenhagen K, Denmark

Laura Stravinskaite

Senior Associate, Attorney at Law

Ai-Leen Lim, Partner and Attorney at Law, Hong Kong SAR

Ai-Leen Lim

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Ashley Zhao, Partner and Attorney at Law, Beijing, China

Ashley Zhao

Partner, Attorney at Law, Business Area Manager

Troels Peter Rørdam, Senior Counsel and European Patent Attorney, Copenhagen K, Denmark

Troels Peter Rørdam

Senior Counsel, European Patent Attorney